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**"A** **n absolutely fascinating book** **: I will never read Austen the same way again."** **-- Helen Macdonald, author of *H is for Hawk* ****"** **Exhilarating** **and beautiful." --Claire Messud, author of *The Burning Girl*** **An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live** *"About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author."*In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and...

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Author

Rachel Cohen

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374720827

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14